[COFF] What is your prompt?

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Sat Dec 25 14:40:56 AEST 2021


Here are examples of some of my prompts.  It does use two lines, but
the extra context is worth it to me:

<tytso at cwcc> {/home/tytso}  
267% cd /usr/projects/e2fsprogs/base
<tytso at cwcc> {/usr/projects/e2fsprogs/base}   (BARE:master)
268% cd /usr/projects/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-maint
<tytso at cwcc> {/usr/projects/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-maint}   (maint)
269% git lgt -1
* 45295a35 - (HEAD -> maint, origin/maint) setup-schroot: add some additional packages needed to build debian packages (3 days ago)
<tytso at cwcc> {/usr/projects/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-maint}   (maint)
270% schroot -c buster-amd64
Top-level shell (parent schroot)
<tytso at buster-amd64-CHROOT.cwcc> {/usr/projects/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-maint}
1% logout
<tytso at cwcc> {/usr/projects/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-maint}   (maint)
271% cd
<tytso at cwcc> {/home/tytso}
272% su
Password: 
<tytso.root at cwcc> {/home/tytso}, level 2
1001# bash
<tytso.root at cwcc> {/home/tytso}, level 3
1001# exit
<tytso.root at cwcc> {/home/tytso}, level 2
1002# exit
<tytso at cwcc> {/home/tytso}
273% ssh imap.thunk.org 
Linux imap.thunk.org 5.10.13-x86_64-linode141 #1 SMP Thu Feb 4 13:56:42 EST 2021 x86_64

Last login: Sat Dec 25 04:33:54 2021 from 108.7.220.252
<tytso at imap.thunk.org>  {/home/tytso}
501% logout
Connection to imap.thunk.org closed.


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